Field Theories of Frustrated Heisenberg Antiferromagnets

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1995-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9506145v1

J.Phys.Condens.Matter 9 (1997) 1831-1839

Physics

Condensed Matter

Latex, 12 pages, 2 figures (gzipped and uuencoded)

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We study the Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain with both dimerization and frustration. The classical ground state has three phases: a Neel phase, a spiral phase and a colinear phase. In each phase, we discuss a non-linear sigma model field theory governing the low energy excitations. We study the theory in the spiral phase in detail using the renormalization group. The field theory, based on an $SO(3)$ matrix-valued field, becomes $SO(3) \times SO(3)$ and Lorentz invariant at long distances where the elementary excitation is analytically known to be a massive spin-$1/2$ doublet. The field theory supports $Z_2 ~$ solitons which lead to a double degeneracy in the spectrum for half-integer spins (when there is no dimerization).

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